
Powered By: The Lougheed Center for Applied Learning
Connecting Potsdam faculty and students with industry partners through exciting hands-on learning engagements
Who should be using this platform?

Educators
Integrate research projects with real company into your course or program curriculum.

Students
Gain 21st century skills and reference-worthy work experience through experiential learning.

Employers
Companies and organizations can connect with students through carefully designed collaborations.
What types of student-industry collaborations?

Live Business Case
Large Class Collaborations with Industry Partners
Educators split students up into groups to work on different real-world company challenges that directly relate to course content and key learning objectives.

Site Visit
Special Short Sessions with Company Leaders
Learners are immersed in a company environment for a short period, interacting with different company leaders through presentations, activities, Q&A sessions, and tours.

Service Learning
Volunteering and Social Impact Projects
A learner collaborates with non-profits and special ventures through short-term, hands-on projects

Job Shadowing
Individual Students Visit for the Day or Week
Learners are immersed in a one-on-one capacity with a company leader to better understand the nuances of different jobs day-to-day.

Capstone
Small Team Consulting Project
Students work in small groups of 2-6 directly with faculty and host company project champions on developing real solutions to real-world challenges.

Micro Internship
Independent Immersive Project
Learners work individually on remote, project-based learning collaborations based on real-world challenges with company mentors.
What Our Users Are Saying
The Smith School at the University of Maryland uses CapSource for help with company sourcing and project design. We used their projects in our MBA Consulting course; we were immersed in a real world environment where we were challenged with real company problems and required to provide viable, thought-out solutions. I much prefer this style of learning over the traditional classroom experience.
Ryan McDonaldUniversity of Maryland MBA Candidate December 2017
Even as a non-profit, we wrestle with complex strategic questions when it comes to running and scaling our operations. The students added capacity to our team and brought a new and fresh perspective to a critical research project. I believe that the students appreciated the challenge and learned a lot through the project. We’re excited to see that they are learning and growing as much as we are benefiting from their insights, which was our main objective for this engagement.
Michelle BrownFounder & CEO, CommonLit
This was quite an exciting project for our team at HUNGRY. It’s always great to hear insights from young, creative students. Since we were running three projects with the same course at once, it was great to see how the teams were able to build off of each other in order to deliver great results. By communicating primarily with the professor, we were able to keep our commitment down to a minimum while really providing these students with a compelling way to learn
Shy PahlevaniPresident & Co-Founder
Experiential learning is especially critical for business programs since blending theory and practice allows the students to build their confidence as they prepare for their professional careers. CapSource provides us with access to companies we would otherwise not be able to work with. They make it easy to identify the right organizations for every course given the overall structure, desired rigor, and teaching objectives.
Sandra LoughlinDirector, Office of Transformational Learning